The 70-year-old, who is serving the longest sentence ever handed down by a Scottish court, was found guilty last November of the notorious World's End rape and murders of two 17-year-olds Evil killer Angus Sinclair has been left a "broken, empty shell of a man" after a series of strokes behind bars The 70-year-old, who is serving the longest sentence ever handed down by a Scottish court, was found guilty last November of the notorious World's End rape and murders of two 17-year-olds. Detectives suspect he may be guilty of further as yet unsolved killings - of Anna Kenny, 20,mum-of-two Hilda McAuley, 36, and 23-year-old nurse Agnes Cooney.
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A grand jury has indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on felony securities fraud charges that accuse the Republican of misleading investors before he took over as the state's top law enforcement officer, a special prosecutor said Saturday. Kent Schaffer, a Houston defense attorney appointed by a judge to the case, told The New York Times that a Texas grand jury indicted Paxton on two counts of first-degree securities fraud and a lesser charge of not registering.
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FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has signed into law a bill that gives law enforcement an additional tool to investigate domestic minor sex trafficking and also expands access to services to victims of child exploitation.
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According to a Law Ministry document, this would help curtail "unnecessary litigation" as people would then approach courts to settle civil contractual disputes as a last resort. With three crore cases pending in courts, the government may consider changes in legal procedure to make it mandatory for a litigant to issue a notice to the opposite party before initiating formal proceedings to enable them explore the possibility of a pre-litigation settlement.
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Last week, a group of young children playing in a public park were forced to run and hide in a metal storage container as bullets intended for nearby gang members flew. Thankfully, no one was hurt.
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The Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, an education organization based in Naples, Fla., has released apps called We-Consent and What About No to help individuals navigate and record consent. Though some say the apps could spark important conversations about sex, others are skeptical recorded video is the right way to do it.
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A Sequim man has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. John Dashti, 61, was charged with two counts of animal cruelty in the second degree when he appeared in Clallam County District Court on Friday.
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Residents at an Uptown condo complex are terrified of one of their neighbors. They say he repeatedly threatened to kill them from jail, and now that he's gotten out, they're afraid he will make good on those threats.
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Since then, evidence at a fatal A accident inquiry has revealed he failed to tell his employers at Glasgow City Council about his health problems - including previous blackouts. Fraser Simpson, a partner at law firm Digby Brown, said: "The private A prosecution is always open.
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina entered separate Consent Orders against Defendants Keith F. Simmons and his company, Black Diamond Capital Solutions, LLC , and Deanna Salazar and her companies, Life Plus Group, LLC and Black Diamond Holdings, LLC , imposing a total of $76 million in civil monetary penalties in connection with a foreign currency exchange scheme in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act . The Orders also impose permanent trading and registration bans on the Defendants and prohibit them from further violations of the anti-fraud provisions of the CEA, as charged.
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Five years after the Dodd-Frank Act put whistleblower anti-retaliation laws on steroids and went to bat for employees who report financial and corporate misconduct, the number of whistleblowers - along with payouts to tipsters - has grown steadily. Dodd-Frank specifically states that employers cannot fire, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, or discriminate against an individual who provides information to the Securities and Exchange Commission and grants confidentially through the process.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the state's top lawman, has been indicted in Collin County on three felony charges alleging securities law violations. The grand jury indictments were handed down Tuesday, then immediately sealed.
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A Texas Tribune reporter, the director of Texans for Public Justice and the Texas Democratic Party weigh in on Paxton's indictment. Reaction: Can Texas AG Paxton survive felony indictment? A Texas Tribune reporter, the director of Texans for Public Justice and the Texas Democratic Party weigh in on Paxton's indictment.
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A man, accused of murder since two days after turning 18, may have his future decided by whether jurors believe an alleged confession he made to a friend the night of the killing. Questioned by Assistant District Attorney John Newby Jr., Liltasha Wellington said the suspect Antwajaune Jerome "A.J." McNeil and Seth Andre Giavonni Garner were at the door to her brother's residence around 9 a.m. on June 17, 2011.
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There is a good chance that you've never heard of Carter Reynolds, the skinny, 19-year-old Angeleno who commands an army of 4.3 million fans on the short-form video platform Vine. But when Reynolds showed up at Vidcon last week -- a sort of Woodstock for Internet celebrities and their hyperventilating, underage fans -- the conference hotel received so many death threats that Reynolds was promptly and unceremoniously banned.
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The white man accused of gunning down nine parishioners at a black church in Charleston wants to plead guilty to 33 federal charges, but his lawyer said in court Friday that he couldn't advise his client to do so until prosecutors say whether they'll seek the death penalty. During a brief arraignment in federal court, defense attorney David Bruck said that he couldn't counsel his client, Dylann Roof, to enter a guilty plea without knowing the government's intentions.
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By Mike Eldred WILMINGTON- Should the town rethink how its law enforcement assets can best serve residents? Selectboard members plan to discuss the town's policing priorities at an upcoming board meeting.
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